Congratulations to NASA on today's successful launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery! I was in meetings all day and didn't get to see the video, so I'm catching up tonight with a replay of a NASA TV post-launch press conference on C-SPAN (1). Most of the questioning was around debris seen flying in the engineering films of the launch. They'll know a lot more about possible damage to the Shuttle tiles in couple days after the Space Station gets a look at the Shuttle. There was an especially cool video captured by a camera strapped to the external tank (3).

NASA's web site has a good digital image gallery. And I'll be loading Spaceflightnow.com's text updates on my Sidekick browser over the next few days.

- mike lee - washington, dc